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Oscars; see Academy Awards
overhypothesis, 11–12
Paine, Thomas, 152
Pallas, Peter Simon 180
Peirce, Charles, 219, 282–83, 290
physics, 99–109; equations of, 113–14; laws of, 101–02; time-symmetry of, 101, 115
Pinto, Freida, 199
Planet of the Apes (1968 movie), 3, 41, 67, 125–142; as controlled hallucination, 211–12; evolutionary issues in, 154; message of, 163; music for, 213–227; scariness of, 167; Serling devices in, 148–150, 151
Planet of the Apes (2001 movie), 82, 87
Planet of the Apes (novel); see Boulle, Pierre
Planet of the Apes (franchise), ix–xi, 3; anti-speciesist message of, 86–77; as cautionary tale, 95, 142, 277; as story of moral progress 84–85; inconsistencies in, 105–06; lessons of, 26; prejudice in, 16; political themes in, 201; racial issues in, 245–254
Planet of the Apes (TV series), “Escape from Ape City,” 87
Planet of the Apes (planet), 127, 208
Planet of the Apes (musical), 254
Plato, 88, 145, 146; criticism of divine basis for ethics, 88–79; on the soul, 139–140, 142; Republic, 126–142, 145, 149, 184, 210
Popper, Sir Karl, 194
power, ability to corrupt, 139–142
prejudice, 68, 146, 150, 266; arbitrary, 92; human, 90; liberal, 61–62; linguistic, 16, 17, 26
primitive, 214, 218, 222, 223
Project Nim (movie), 92, 258; Singer’s review of, xii, 27
propositions, logical versus empirical, 206
psychologist’s dilemma, 48–49
Quine, Willard Van Orman, 23–24
race, 245–254; ontology of, 247, 251, 252
Regan, Tom, 69, 267
Relativity: special, 99–100; general, 102, 112
religion: and science, 43–44; ape, 265–66; as tool for political control, 125–26, 129–131, 134–35, 140–41; David Hume on, 52, 160
revolution: ape, 231; American, ix; scientific ix, 196; sexual, ix
Ring of Gyges, 145
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (movie), x, xii, 3, 68, 81, 87, 231–243, 255–262; portrayal of drug companies in, 274; sound editing in, 170; morality in, 178; visual effects in, 195, 201
Robert, Jason Scott, 57, 61–63
Rodman, Charles, 53, 57, 58, 177
Rodman, Will, 53, 56–58, 63, 77, 187, 273
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 148, 179
Routley, Richard, 268–270, 272, 274
Ryder, Richard, 68
sacred scrolls, 85, 131, 140, 146, 265, 282
San Bruno Primate Shelter, 3, 13, 30, 87
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 219, 236–37
Schaffner, Franklin, 265
Schoenberg, Arnold, 221
science, 131–34; ideology of, 41–52; limitations of, 5; of race, 248; philosophy of, 8–8, 44–47, 196; and ethics, 46, 48, 52; social, 157–58
Sepkoski, Jack, 162
Serling, Rod, ix, 144–152, 204; optimism of, 149; pessimism of, 149
sex, ix, 137–38; interracial, 250; interspecies, 250
sexual orientation, 160, 185
Shakespeare, William, 210, 234, 284
Shepard, Paul, 291
signified, 236–38
signifier, 236–241
Singer, Peter, xii, 68, 69, 83; Animal Liberation, 68, 81, 297; anti-speciesist views of 84, 86, 87, 90; views on personhood, 27
social contract, 145
Socrates, 194, 198
speciesism, 68–82, 84–94, 266, 271
Star Wars (movie), 227
state of nature, 143
state of war, 145
Statue of Liberty, 148, 152
Sterling, Bruce, 211
Stewart, 149
Stravinsky, Igor, 215, 222, 223; The Rite of Spring, 222, 223
Stringer, Chris, 290
Swift, Jonathan, 89–90
Tahrir Square, x
Taylor, George, 67, 83, 222–25, 276–77; anger of, 276; as anti-hero, 224; as “Bright Eyes,” 17; captivity of, 147, 167–68; destiny of, 121; linguistic capacity, 3, 16, 27, 42, 132, 257; misanthropy of, 223, 266; relationship with Nova, 10, 32, 187; relationship with Zira, 7, 67, 94, 163, 291; speciesism of, 83; trial of, 48–50, 86–87, 196
Terminator, 287
time: arrow of, 102; scale, 163; travel, 99–109, 111–121
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 147, 148
Tower of Hanoi, 20
translation, indeterminacy of, 23–24
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 150
turtles, orangutan fear of, 11
Twain, Mark, 254
Twilight Zone (TV show), 144, 148, 149, 150, 151, 204; “Time Enough at Last,” 148, 149, 151; “Third from the Sun,” 148; “Two,” 149; “Probe, 8—Over and Out,” 149; “The Rip van Winkle Caper,” 149; “On Thursday We Leave for Home,” 149; “The Old Man in the Cave,” 149; “Eye of the Beholder,” 150; “One More Pallbearer,” 151; “The Shelter,” 148; “People Are Alike All Over,” 144
tyranny of the majority, 147
United States, 57, 84, 141, 216; factory farming in, 80; race in, 251; involvement in Vietnam, 273
Ursus, 285
US Supreme Court, 250
Verger, 287
Verne, Jules, 212
war, 95; in Vietnam, 214, 225, 269, 273; nuclear, 148–49, 151; of all against all, 145–47
Warhol, Andy, 199
Washington, George, 152
Washington, Martha, 152
Washoe, 266, 271
wealth, 127, 132, 142
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 45, 194;
On Certainty, 204–211;
Philosophical Investigations, 35
women, social role of, 136–37
World War I, 215
World War II, 155, 184
Zack, Naomi, 253
Zaius, Dr., 69–71, 86–89, 121, 131, 147; and the cave, 149–150, 155, 210; and the Sacred Scrolls, 146; as ideologue, 43; at Taylor’s trial, 205; clothing of, 69, 147; destruction of evidence, 131, 147, 155, 211; elitism of, 139; in Beneath the Planet of the Apes, 267, 268, 276; misanthropy of, 69–70, 89
Zanuck, Darryl, ix
Zira, Dr., 131, 134–35, 137, 140, 147, 150, 224, 284, 291
Žižek, Slavoj, 240, 241, 242–43